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No. 6l6,975. Patented Jan. 3 I899.

C. A. ROLLASON, W. H. FLETCHER &. G. R. RDLLASON.

APPARATUS FOR ADVERTISING.

(Application filed Mar. 1, 1898.) I (NoModeL) 2 Sheets-Sheet l.

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No. 6l6,975. Patented Jan. 3, I899.

, C. A. ROLLASON, W. H. FLETCHER G. R. RDLLASON.

APPARATUS FOR ADVERTISING.

(Application filed Mar. 1, 159B.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

illli immnuu n NITED STATES CHARLES ARTHUR ROLLASON, WESTLEY H. FLETCHER, AND GEORGE R.

ROLLASON, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOR ADVERTISING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 616,975, dated January 3, 1899.

Application filed March 1, 1898. Serial No. 672,200. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that we, CHARLES ARTHU ROLLAsON, engineer, a resident of 6 Fairlight avenue, Harlesden, N. W., WESTLEY HENRY FLETCHER, architect, a resident of 123 Abbey road, N. W., and GEORGE ROBERT ROLLA- SON, engineer, a resident of 16 Greenhill road, Harlesden, N. lV., in the city of London, England, subjects of the Queenof Great Britain, have invented a certain new and useful Apparatus for Advertising, of which the following is a. specification.

Our invention has for its object an improved apparatus for exhibiting revolving advertisements in open spaces adjacent to railway-lines or in other suitable situations.

In carrying our invention into practical effect we erect on the site where it is required to exhibit the advertisement or advertisements a vertical pillar, which maybe of metal,

wood, or other suitable substance and which is maintainedin its vertical position by means of a suitable framework, above which it projects. Capable of revolving in a horizontal plane around this pillar are a set of fivevertical sails for carrying advertisements. These sails branch radially from the pillar and are supported by straps; The inner ends of these straps are carried by the upper cups of roller-bearings, the lower cups of which are keyed or otherwise suitably attached to the projecting part ofthe vertical post or pillar, as hereinafter described. The advertisements are painted or otherwise marked upon or af fixed to either one or both sides of these vertical sails, and the latter, when the apparatus is in use, are caused to rotate by means of the wind. These vertical sails have their edges at their outer sides slightly curved or bent toward the wind, and a space of at least one foot must be left between the edge at the inner side of each sail and the said vertical pillar. This space enables the wind to pass between any two adjacent sails and strike the curved part or side of another sail on the opposite side of the pillar, thus insuring that the sails will always revolve in the same di-. rection.

We will now proceed to further describe our invention in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which the same letters of reference indicate like parts in the various figures. 1 Figure 1 shows an elevation of our apparatus. Fig. 2 is a plan of the vertical sails from above. Fig. 3 is a plan from above of the supporting-frame of the vertical pillar, with the pillar and sails removed. Fig; 4 is a vertical sectional view of one of the rollerbearings. Fig. 5 is a plan of the lower cup and rollers of one of the roller-bearings.

The vertical pillar a has its lower end fixed in the ground or attached toany suitable base on or in the ground and is supported by a framework consisting of four main posts I),

having their ends at their upper extremities able system of beams and supports, such as is shown in Figs. 1 and 3. Any suitable form of supporting-framework may be used; but the form illustrated is found most convenient.

Vertical sails d, having their outer edges curved toward the wind and having a space of at least one foot between their inner edges and the pillar a, are carried by means of horizontal straps e, the latter having their inner ends respectively attached to the top cups of the roller-bearings f, the lower cups of which bearings are keyed or otherwise suitably attached to-the vertical pillar a. Above each of these bearings a suitable weather-guard g is placed.

The vertical sails 01 may be constructed of a number of slats of wood or other suitable material or may each be made of one piece of such material. Each sail is strengthened by a stay 6', and is connected with the sail next to it on either side by means of two sets of horizontal tie-rods h, Figs. 1 and 2.

Each of the roller-bearings f is constructed, as shown in Figs. 4: and 5, of a lower cup and sleeve is (this lower sleeve being passed onto the pillar a and keyed or otherwise fixed thereto) and an upper cup and sleeve f, this upper sleeve being passed loosely onto the pillar a, so as to be capable of revolving around the same. The traveling ring 1' has fixed to it radial axles 0', upon which revolve a suitable number of rollers 1' usually from three to five, according to requirements, being used in each bearing. Each of these rollers is in the shape of a frustum of a cone and has its end of smaller diameter situated inward and furnished with a flange i. These rollers r are capable of revolving between suitablyinclined races 5 and 3, formed in the upper and lower cups, respectively, the projecting flangest bearing against the inner sides of these races. The traveling ring 0" serves as a space-maintainer to the rollers 0' and the lower cup is filled or partly filled with lubrieating-oil.

The advertisement or advertisements may either be painted or otherwise suitably marked directly upon the surfaces of the sails, or may be printed painted, embossed, or otherwise formed upon a sheet or sheets of paper, canvas, sheet metal, or other convenient substance, and then such sheet or sheets attached to the said sails. When now exposed to the wind, the sails, with their ad vertisements, will revolve.

\Vhat we claim is- VVind-power apparatus for exhibiting advertisements consisting of a number of horizontallycurved vanes supported by rollerbearings from a central upright and arranged with the convex and concave surfaces of the one facing the concave and convex surfaces of those next it and with a space between them and the upright, said roller-bearin gs comprising the rollers r runningbetween the inclined races 8, s, and having theirinner ends flanged and connected by the ring 1' substantially as described.

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of witnesses.

CHARLES ARTHUR ROLLASON. WES'lLEl' ll. FLETCHER. GEORGE R. ROLLASON.

\Vitnesses to the signature of Charles Arthur Rollason:

S. M. TAYLOR, JAMES J. INGLIS.

Witnesses to the signatures of Westley Henry Fletcher and George Robert Rollasou W. M. HARRIS, WALTER J. SKERTEN. 

